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Offline jualdeaux

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IE 7 has been released
« on: October 19, 2006, 09:39:50 pm »
It was released last night. I guess there has already been a hole found.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2006, 05:02:58 am »
I have been using IE7 beta 3 for a while and really have like it :) .. I think I will stick with my current beta 3 version for now since there really is no reason for me to upgrade to the official release.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2006, 06:42:32 am »
Quote from: jualdeaux on October 19, 2006, 09:39:50 pm
It was released last night. I guess there has already been a hole found.

Already??!?  My gosh those hackers sure didn't waste any time did they??!?  Thanks for the tip though, I'll download it tonight when I get time...  and get my other computer issues figured out.   ::)
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2006, 01:48:00 pm »
I don't know, I went ahead and grabbed it last night, and IT might just be me not giving it time, But Firefox still seems abit faster and cleaner for me personaly. I know It might be how they handle cached websites, but loading the same site over and over, FF still seems abit faster and crisper to me.

Maybe I just need to give IE more time. BTW, does IE 7.0 use .png correctly now?

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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2006, 02:12:27 pm »
IE7 loads everything almost instantly for me.. even on Dial Up :)
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2006, 02:17:47 pm »
It's possible, IT might be the Sattelite Con, that I use. Like I said, I'll give it some more time. I don enjoy that they are using tabbed Browsing again, and the one headache that FF gave me was fixing that damn " ' " or " / " opens the find window when posting. Even turning it off didn't work that well.

I am glad to hear that it works fast on dial up though, IT gives me an excuse to grab a few more HD's and tell the wife, that my current drives, are slowing down the internet for everyone, so I need to upgrade to larger and faster ones.  ;D

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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2006, 11:03:14 pm »
About the IE 7 defect.

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These reports are technically inaccurate: the issue concerned in these reports is not in Internet Explorer 7 (or any other version) at all. Rather, it is in a different Windows component, specifically a component in Outlook Express. While these reports use Internet Explorer as a vector the vulnerability itself is in Outlook Express.


It appears not to be in IE7.  Unfortunately due to Microsofts "integration" of components into the OS rather than just bundling them together you can't uninstall OE to avoid the bug.  One of my pet beefs with Microsoft.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2006, 10:01:35 am »
Quote from: Stephen NCC -73070 on October 20, 2006, 01:48:00 pm
I don't know, I went ahead and grabbed it last night, and IT might just be me not giving it time, But Firefox still seems abit faster and cleaner for me personaly. I know It might be how they handle cached websites, but loading the same site over and over, FF still seems abit faster and crisper to me.

Maybe I just need to give IE more time. BTW, does IE 7.0 use .png correctly now?

stephen

I know that I am still using firefox. and I just can't see me switching back to IE for regular use. I still have to use it for some pages and Windows update of course. I just thought that I'd let peole know that it is out there.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2006, 11:12:18 am »
What dissappoints me is that I was hoping they would make IE CSS compliant but apparently they didn't so web designers have to go through all sorts of gyrations to create a page viewable by IE and FF.  Typical MS, use their market share and non-standard practices to shut out competitors.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2006, 04:51:15 am »
Quote from: IKV Nemesis on October 20, 2006, 11:03:14 pm
About the IE 7 defect.

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These reports are technically inaccurate: the issue concerned in these reports is not in Internet Explorer 7 (or any other version) at all. Rather, it is in a different Windows component, specifically a component in Outlook Express. While these reports use Internet Explorer as a vector the vulnerability itself is in Outlook Express.


It appears not to be in IE7. Unfortunately due to Microsofts "integration" of components into the OS rather than just bundling them together you can't uninstall OE to avoid the bug. One of my pet beefs with Microsoft.

Luckily my Outlook Express is about as disabled as I could make it, and I use a different e-mail software for my e-mail(as well I use webmail systems also).. I never did like OE.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2006, 06:02:54 pm »
Quote from: Capt_SFHQ_XC on October 24, 2006, 04:51:15 am
Luckily my Outlook Express is about as disabled as I could make it, and I use a different e-mail software for my e-mail(as well I use webmail systems also).. I never did like OE.

The fact that you can't uninstall it (or IE or Messenger or Media player etc) is among the things I don't like about the way Windows has gone.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2006, 09:31:35 pm »
I've gotten as close to uninstalling it as possible I think..
I have it were OE cant even be open without a error(which then causes a total failular of OE crashing back to the desktop), and many DLL files it needs are altered to the point, where unless I really need OE again, its gone from my computer.. anyone that trys to exploit OE probably will get a big error on the other end, unless I reinstall it with the files I backed up on 2 floppies just incase, which wont be happening in the foreseeable future for me :)
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2006, 11:05:55 am »
Looks like they're still on IE 5 for the Mac.  It's not like we miss MS as a browser though.  IE crashes as often as Windows does, and when you're on a Mac you notice more :p
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2006, 08:41:27 pm »
Quote from: Commander Maxillius on October 26, 2006, 11:05:55 am
Looks like they're still on IE 5 for the Mac.  It's not like we miss MS as a browser though.  IE crashes as often as Windows does, and when you're on a Mac you notice more :p

Once Netscape went down so did the IE for other Operating Systems.  They used to make an IE for Unix that worked on Linux.  Of course that left the hole that Firefox is filling so ably and Microsoft is probably kicking themselves now for dropping support.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2006, 06:20:39 am »
Reasons not to upgrade to IE7.  Link to full article
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2006, 11:10:42 am »
I loved #3.
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2006, 11:33:49 am »
lol.. well #9 will apply to Vista's anti-piracy restrictions anyway LOL
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2006, 10:30:10 pm »
Looks just like Firefox.  Is that all Microsoft knows how to do?  Rip-off other people's ideas?
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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2006, 09:54:12 am »
Quote from: Lepton on November 02, 2006, 10:30:10 pm
Looks just like Firefox.  Is that all Microsoft knows how to do?  Rip-off other people's ideas?


I've repeatedly asked people who support Microsoft and claim that Microsoft innovates to name an innovation.  They never have responded with a valid innovation by Microsoft.  It is always something they copied or bought.

I have found two myself that I believe they did innovate - Clippy (descended from MS Bob) and software activation.  When I have had to work with MS Office I've always turned off Clippy as it is an annoyance to me not an aid.  I refuse to use software requiring activation.  So neither innovation helps me personally as a consumer.

Anyone else know of any other Microsoft innovation?  Or evidence that these two were copied/bought from the actual innovators?

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Re: IE 7 has been released
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2006, 10:51:31 am »
I seem to recall one thing that Firefox ripped from IE7 was session resuming or something. it is where you have tabs open and you can set it to return to those pages when you open up the browser again or after an update has been installed and it needs to restart.

Then again, I might be thinking about something else.
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